ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,574, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"System, device, and method for writing data to protected region" was invented by Younsung Chu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jisoo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyungsup Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yongsuk Lee (Gunpo-si, South Korea) and Hyunsook Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device configured to communicate with a host, the storage device including: a memory including a protected region; and a controller configured to provide the host with a first response including a first device message authentic...